Re: An Embarrassing Progblem

[Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>]

On 24/01/17 09:09, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> There should be a session file somewhere in ~/.config (sorry I have no
> more details). Perhaps XFCE honors ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsessionrc or some
> of their siblings.

I use ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc to set environment variables before XFCE 
starts:

#!/bin/sh
# ...
# settings needed before xfce start
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
export LC_COLLATE=C
# ...
# last line:
. /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc

Stephen, as mentioned earlier, the prompt should be settable in 
~/.bashrc *if* it is sourced by ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile so the 
more likely solution is to check that these files are not damaged.

Also check that the shell really is bash and not something else:

echo $BASH_VERSION
echo $SHELL

Kind regards,

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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand